rethinkrecovery
Hey Friends!Do you often feel frustrated and ask yourself: ”Why can’t I stop drinking for good”? or: ”Is living a life of sobriety going to be any more fulfilling? I expected to be happier now that I don’t drink”.
Are you starting to get restless now that you’re sober? Have you started having thoughts of relapse? Are you tired of trying to quit drinking alcohol on your own, only to find yourself reaching for a bottle and your cigarettes spending the next few days in shame and self-hatred? Are you in recovery but live every day unfulfilled and unhealed wondering why you are so different?
Not many people know how inadequate you feel trying to navigate an alcohol-free lifestyle while sometimes, feeling overpowered because you don’t understand your emotions. You still feel pain from unhealed trauma, and you suppress your emotions because you expected to be a certain way in recovery and you don’t want to disappoint the people in your life that are rooting for you.
So you smile.. and you often think: ”This is just how it will be”, and every day the vibrant sober woman you thought you would be seems further and further from reach. causing a great deal of low self-esteem.
Without the implementation of healthy coping skills and new routines, now that you are sober, you place yourself at a high risk of relapse, and I don’t want that for you my Friends, because I.HAVE.BEEN.THERE.DONE.THAT. and there is no space in your beautiful sober life for that self-sabotaging F*ckery.
I see you, and I know what it feels like to be unhappy and unfulfilled in recovery because I never healed or developed a relationship with myself so I relapsed over and over again, I was so sick of always living a life controlled by alcoholism and unhealed trauma, I was headed for death and had to do a major intervention on myself, and in 2015 when I was arrested because of my drinking I entered my 2nd and....last rehab facility.
And it has been the most powerful gift I allowed myself to receive. I can now show up for myself and especially my daughters.- It wasn’t easy, actually, sometimes it really sucked, I tried AA in the beginning after I left rehab, but honestly often times I either wanted to drink after- Or -DID drink---(This is only my experience I don’t advise against-or-for 12 step programs in the show, it just wasn’t for me personally),
”I KNEW, DEEP DOWN, THAT I WAS ALIVE AND WAS MEANT TO BE DOING SO MUCH MORE THAN JUST NOT DRINKING”!!!
Do you feel that friends? You are meant for a higher purpose in this World, and change starts with small steps that improve self-esteem so you can navigate alcohol recovery like a superhero, this is your permission to have a happier and healthier life of sobriety.
So....if you’re ready to start understanding your emotions, live a happy fulfilling life in sobriety, build your toolbox of healthy coping skills and new routines reducing the risk of relapse or thoughts of drinking. And if you are ready to build self-esteem and self-love in recovery but you don’t even have a (SELF) to begin that journey?.......... then let’s do this!
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